Chosen through selection journal as a good educational TitleUnveiling Eve is the 1st feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose kinds cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence within the 11th via fourteenth centuries. within the Jewish center a long time, writing used to be an solely male competence, and textual associations reminiscent of the examine of scripture, mysticism, philosophy, and liturgy have been men's sanctuaries from which ladies have been banished.

A mystery tunnel underneath Jerusalem’s partitions linking King Solomon’s Temple to the valley below…. The reconquest of Spain from the Moors, the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews in 1492…. Napoleon’s military within the heart East, a gorgeous Jewish woman in a Harem, and a French Colonel held to ransom…. ….